Top 1200 Reason Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

I'm sure that inside your heart... you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because... because really... there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think that everyone... everyone might have to find one on their own. [in her head] A reason for being born... A reason that it's okay to be alive... A reason to exist. [aloud] I think everyone might have to find it themselves... and decide it for themselves. It could be your dreams... your job... or a person... The reason you're looking for... might be vague, unclear... and uncertain. [in her head] And you might lose it. [aloud] But as long as you're alive... you have to keep searching for that reason.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.

There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

You can see a lot about our mission on our website, but the basic idea is that the church believes that understanding human beings and the Earth requires not only faith but also reason, and not only philosophical reason but also scientific reason.

The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves.

I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.

I think there should be a reason tor people to be interviewed. For me, there's no real reason.

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.

I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers.

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.